.jstfei &B EATE B T tfjmjgßMM ffwl IMPROTEHENt "•' OF THE AGE IN .PIANOS. -. MEYER’S Improved Overstrung Pianos, ac knowledged by 'he leading .artists, and endorsed Jy the Musical public, to be the finest Pianos In of the Musical public is called to these recent great improvements in Piano l Fortes. Bv a new method of construction, the' greatest sossible volume of tone has been obtained, without any of the sweetness and brilliancy for which these Pianos ars so celebrated, being lost, and which, with'an Improved Touch and Action ren der them Unequaled. These Instruments received the Prize Medal at She World’s Fair, held In London, as well as the Highest Awards over all competitors, from the jrrt Fairs and Institutes, in this Country. Ware, rooms, 722 Arch street below Eighth, Philada. MfaSmßSm celebrated ny£ is tlie best in the World. Tile only Harmless, jyue and Reliable Dye kna-wn. Tills splendid Hair Dye is perieet— changes Bed, Rusty or Grey Hair, Instantly to a Glossy Black or Natural Brown, with out injuring the Hair or Staining the skin, leaving me hair soft and beantifnl; imparts fresh vitality, trequently restoring its pristine color, and rectifies me ill effects of bad Dyes. The genuine is signed WmniaH A. Batohhlob, all others are mere imi tations, and should be avoided. Sold by all Drag gists, Ac. F AOTORY—BI BAB OLAY street, N. T. Batchelor’b New Toilet Cream for dressing the Hair. ■ - ’HWWifk ALBRECHT, RIKES & -ijpyaaSK SCHMIDT, beg leave to announce Wf fh ' -' that their Manufactory sf First-Class jqano Fortes is now in fnU operation. The general MtHsiaction their many Pianos; sold already, meet With, by competent judges, enables them to assert confidently that their Piano Fortes are not sur passed by any manufactured in the United States. They respectfully invite the musical public to call and examine their instruments,' at the Sales Boom, No. 46 North Third street. Full guarantee given, and prices moderate. selected and prepared for family use, free from ■late and dust, delivered promptly and warranted to give full satisfaction, at prices as low as the lowest for a good article. Lump Coal for found ries, and chestnut Coal for steam purposes, at wholesale prices. An-assortment of Hickory, Oak and Pike Wood, kept constantly on hand. Also, an excellent article of Blacksmith’s Coal, delivered free of carting to any part of the city. A trial of this coal will secure your custom. Send your orders to THOMAS E. CAHILL. Offices, 325 Walnut street. Lombard and Twenty-fifth street. North Pennsylvania Railroad and Master street. Pine spree; wharf, Schuylkill. THE COLD SPRING lOE COMPANY. Offices and Depots as above. Wagons ran in all the paved limits of the Con solidated City and in the Twenty-fourth Ward. BTEOKiOO.’S MASON HAMLIN’S CABINET ORGANS. STEOKfc CO.’S DR. STOT’S INFALLIBLE LINI MENTis me best remedy for Sores in the known ‘world. JTTTTJ SQUARE, UPRIGHT PIANOS ard MOW considered the best in Europe, as well as this country, having received the first Prize Medal at the World’s Exhibition in London, 1862. The principal reason why the Steinway Pianos are superior to All others is, that the firm is com posed of five practical pianoforte makers (father and four sons), who invent all their own improve f“ d ? 1 J der . whose p-rsonal supervision' every part -of the instrument is manufactured safe only at BLASIUS BROS., 1006 Ohestant RR R ‘ „ hi ;p%.gOE NT BOTTLE WILL CURE £^«-^Sn- FeT *J.°?. Ne s! al B la ’ Diturhosa, Dyßen . ■ery or Bilious Colic,. Rheumatism, Gout, Lum hago. Pain in the Kidneys or Bladder, Spine, o c^f ad ’ larns’I arns ’ Scalds or Poisonous Bites, Strains, Sprains, or Braises, Sore Throat, Influenza or Diphtheria, Swoolen Joints, Lameness or Cramp. AH of these complaints one bottle will cure. It wil afford re- S“ by .? f , ln E le application Let every family keep it in their house, and use it when pain is expe rienced. A few minutes after its application the most severe pains will cease; it matters not what may be the cause of pain, relief will follow its use Price 25 cts. per bottle Sold by Druggists every- Dr. Radway’ s Medicines are sold by Druggists everywhere. RADWAY & cof, 87 Maiden Lane, New’ York. iVENTNG BULLETIN MONDAY, MARCH 7, 18647 the umrnr of raids. General Kilpatrick certainly" deserves credit for vigorous conduct iir his late movement toward Richmond; and General Custer is pro — entitled to equal commendation. But after all, it may weU be asked, what good was done by either of them that will compensate for the losses. Lately there have been so many small expeditions sent ont in different directions, no one of which has accomplished any great object, that we fear the world w 3 think our war has degenerated into mere wanton waste of hfe and destruction of pro perty. Cavalry expeditions may be made very nsefnl as parts of great army movements. But no movement of Meade’s army seems to have been contemplated, and its commander was in Washington city at the very time that Kilpat- Z Ck^t C * Stel Were in motioD - If the Army of the Potomac had been prepared to advance at the time jwhen Kilpatrick and Custer had in terrupted Lee’s communicatisns and created a panic in Richmond, something very important might have been accomplished. Bnt this was not the case, and the raids were profitless to us and not very damaging to the . enemy. It is wi great satisfaction that we hear that Lieutenant-General Grant /is on his way to ashmgton. This, we presume, means that he is so<& to take the chief command of the armies. In his department there have been no nseless cavalry raids, and we venture the pre diction-, that none will be allowed in any depart ment, when he enters upon his new duties. Tt ;^ E v Q v OTA 0F PHILADEEPHIA. it is to be hoped that the action of Councils, at their last meeting, will result in sendi ° efficient , committee to Washington to investi gate the mode by which the quota ofVhilade phia has been computed. Thecitv i. and willing to do her whole duW w - 7 portant a matter as sendTng hSile im ’ nhe has a right to djjTo have already called attention to the great re (faction obtained by New York, and to the discrepancy betweenher quota and 6urs. That some strange error, indeed, has been commit ted to onr prejudice, is a fact capable of easv census of the loyite/fndTerJfo *° deShl a afraCtion °- 23 > 0 °0,000; that ofPUIZ will^therefore^how^kfoM l^ 16 Pr ° P - ti?,n r 4OP-V^ 2 2 9 ,lnstea&^ the quota as officially announced w ’ ooo ’ ®f reasoning can reconcile so great f ° pro< i ea3 The changes which have taken* place s *"* 7 ' 1860, mid the fact that the not the census, are the basis of calculation would rather diminish than increase our quota’ for the Western States have a larger per eentage of able-bodied fighting men than the Eastern, and the increase of population is chiefly there. The draft is a matter which so nearly con cerns every citizen, that the Government PIANOS. PIANOS. J. E. GOT Seventh and Chestnut. should be scrupulous fo conduct It in the most open manner, that the justice of its operations should be beyond cavil and he manifest to every one. The my stery and secrecy observed by self-important officials are most ill-advised. When a draft is ordered, tables should be pub lished. showing the enrollment in every dis- the total qnota of each district, the ere-! dits to which it is entitled, and the net quota: to he furnished. Each locality would then see that it was called upon for only its just share of the general burden, and, all murmurs of dis satisfaction would be bushed.. The Adminis tration should treat the people with confidence, and should so conduct its affairs as to convince even its enemies that it is worthy the confi dence of the people. It is only in this way that the war can be carried to a successful issue. THE BATTLE-FIELD OF GETTYSBURG. Victor Hugo, in his wonderful description of the battle of Waterloo, in Lea Miserables, tells of a visit which he paid to the memorable field in 1861, nearly forty years subsequent to the period of the tremendous struggle which made a great man of Wellington and an exile of Napoleon. The chateau of Hongomont still stood, and it bore marks of the dreadful fray of the 18th of June, 1816; but the fine old group of buildings and the other interesting historical relics of the locality had been greatly altered. Walls had disappeared, other chuiges had been made in the structures, and an utili tarian spirit had wiped out very mauy of the traces of the great drama at which the world had gazed forty years before with bated breath. The plough had turned over the soil, and Hongomont and La Haie Sainte, where Gaul and Briton had entered upon their great final death grapple, were greatly altered, and the familiar landmarks of the field of Waterloo could be traced out but with difficulty. The English had thrown up a great mound of earth upon the field and surmounted it with the figure of a lion, and this cockneyish contrivance was deemed a fit monument of Waterloo; while Waterloo itself was left to the plough and the harrow, and to such changes as the simple tillers of its soil chose to make in the historic localities of the field which had witnessed as splendid bravery and as devoted heroism as the World ever witnessed. Our own struggle at Gettysburg was a great battle; in respect of' the number of men en gaged in it, and of its victims in killed and wonnded, it was almost, if not quite, equal to Waterloo. The actors in it were no less heroic than those who struggled for the possession of Hongomont. The stake played for at Water loo was legitimate tyranny mid oppression, against illegitimate usurpation. The struggle at Gettysburg was for the loftier principles of Freedom, the Union and the Supremacy of the Laws, against Slavery,-Treason and Anarchy. The righteous cause will prevail, and instead of raising a mound of dirt to commemorate the great event, the people of Pennsylvania hast set aside the field itself, as its own best monument. The entrenchments thrown up during those anxious July nights in 1863 remain as the battle left them, and no shell-shattered tree, battered earthwork, or stone or timber breastwork has been suffered to be disturbed. The American historian who visits Cemetery Hill, Culp’s Hill, Granite Spur : or Round Top, forty years hence, will find , among them no traces of the plough or marks of ignorant or vandal hands. The .Gettysburg Battle-field Memorial Association have taken care of the preservation of this sacred soil, and the spot will probably remain unchanged for ever, except by the wear of the elements. To accomplish this grand object the Association need the aid of loyal Pennsylvanians. Their plan for the accomplishment'of their purpose and their appeal to their fellow-citizens will be found in another column. We can only say to our readers, peruse it and be governed in yonr action by the promptings of your own patriotic hearts. COPPERHEAD CRITICS. It can bnt mortify every loyal man in the country to read the editorial productions of the Copperhead journalists upon the recent disaster in Florida. Eager to embrace, what they conceive to be an excellent opportunity, to villify the President of the United States’ and at the same time to give comfort to the ene my, by applauding them for victories ■ gained, and thus encouraging them to continue their resistance to the Government. The telegraph had scarcely transmitted the sad intelligence of the defeat and loss of life,before the newspapers, over whose-columns these unscrupulous critics exercise control, teemed with articles slander dering the Administration. No regret was expressed for the check which our arms had received; not a word or sentence published which could be construed even into an expres sion of sorrow at the loss of the brave men who fell on the field of Olustee. It haiTbecn stated that Mr. Lincoln had the responsibility of ordering the expedition to Florida, and its failure afforded too much scope for criticism to escape the notice of these sympathizers with the victors. Fortu nately the patriotic' people of the North and Westjiave too much faith and confidence in the President to credit a single one of the numerous charges which have been made against his integrity and honesty. . The impu tations of political motives is but the concoction of the fertile brains of the villifiers. There is no possible reason why Mr. Lincoln should exert himself to secure votes for himself at the ensuing- Presidential election in Florida, or any other State. From almost every loyal Commonwealth have come, within the past tew weeks, unmistakable evidences that he is the choice of the people, as the man best fitted to occupy, during the four years suc ceeding the fourth of March, .1866, the Chief Executive chair of the nation. Disgraceful as may be the abuse of his op ponents, their mendacity and baseness cannot, happily, injure his prospect of- success, nor prevent his triumph in November next. FINANCIAL AND POLiriCAL WISDOM FEOM RICHMOND The Richmond Examiner, in an article on the condition of the .North, speculates with an as sumption of calm philosophy on the contest for the Presidency. It considers Mr. Lincoln a» the candidate of the moderate Unionists, and “Fremont or some other” as the choice of the ~?*• It also goes on to regard the efforts o e Indiana Copperheads as “gracious ..bads which “ ma y bloom and blossom delusivß froit ° f re™ lll *!'®.” This kind of T to P e of Copperhead assignee has al BPLLIYISyi PHILABItPau. . MAPffl 7, 1864. lured and tantalized the rebels from the very outset of the war, and’they still cling to the phantom of such aid with comical persistence. It is not lor want of desire on the part of the Northern peace democracy that their aid to the rebels is ineffectual; but it is because their sin ister and contemptible want of patriotisrtT dis gusts the great mass of the people of the North, and the latter refuse to allow the Cop perheads to work their malignant wiß. The Examinerprofesses to regard the finan cial condition of the North ad more desperate than that of rebeldom, because Northern finan ciering “is based on ever new frauds,” and Southern financiering is “based on fact and truth!” Truly a marvellous discovery. We wonder whether Mr. Chase will tremble when Jie reads of it! In concluding, the Examiner grows eloquently Utopian and sanguine. As thus: T’JH sa £F eattllin S lo stand upon a basis of simple fact and trutn. In this struggle, S! t j 6 two parties first sets iveir upon mat Arm ground must win the day—and we do think that.be Confederates are npon KnouT They at least know that they mu6t conquer or perish* that compromise there ran be nonerthat %e Federal power or the Confederate people must be ruined mat we must dictate a peace, or else ourenemiei' will; vie on our terms, or they on theirs; we on their ground, or they on onra: that they must be baekrapt and divided asunder, or we beggared and «*“' *w«<» Be it so: and better so. We protest that this position of affairs is altogether to oar mind If any Confederate shrink from abiding this issue, and in this exact form, it is time that such Confederate should gather np and cl™frhlll h l nds npon ’ tnm u ‘“to gold and wels, and sneak away across the lines, provided he can escape the roobers that inlest thoa e P p° Brave words, my masters! The charming basis of fact and veracity on which this bloody rebellion is now—not standing, but sinking must be the subject of peculiar admiration to those who are starving within the rebel lines; and of course the allusion to those “Con federates” who are requested to “sneak away across the lines,” cannot be meant for any very large proportion of the people of the devoted South! COPPERHEAD LOYALTY. As an evidence of the feeling of Copperhead journals we clip the following from the jfelins grove (Pa.) Times, with the comments npon it of the Stark county (Ohio) Democrat. Sava the Times: “Ue would see Old Abe hnngby order of Tt.fr Davis, before we would urge any man to volnn teer m a war like thl6. ” The comments of the Stark county Democrat are as below: “The above plain and truthful talk we com mend to onr friends, especially to those who have been led need toaid by their money and otherwise the bonnty and schemes of the Abolition leaders. * ’ IVe commend the foregoing utterances to those deluded souls who fancy that the peace Democratic party either is Or ever was an anti slavery party, or that it ever honestly advo cated the war for the Union. Both the above journals are supported purely by Democrats and represent the sentiments of the adherents of that faction in the localities where they are published. Portrait or the Pbesident.—A full-length portrait of President Lincoln, finely engraved in mezzotint, has been published b/j. C. But tre, of New York. The head was taken from a recent photograph, and the likeness is perfclt The print is altogether a very handsome ole! Mr. J. P. Skelly, No. 908 Arch street, is the Philadelphia agent, and a specimen copy may be seen at Mr. T. B. Pugh’s, comer of Sixtlr* and Chestnut streets. Me. Gottscualk’s Concert, at Concert Hall this evening, will be a brilliant affair. He will take part in a qnaitett by Beethoven, and wil] play two waltzes by Chopin, besides several of his own compositions. Mme. D’Angri will sing several airs, as she only can sing thorn. Carlo Patti, Simon Hassler and Charles F. Schmitz will assist. GREAT SALE OF REAL ESTATE. Freeman has advertised a verv lanre ~i Rial Estate, of most desirable descriptkms m held at the Exchange, on the 16th instint?u> we it vile amotion. For descriptions ? Auction head advertisement! P exanune EX TEA VALUABLE BEAL ESTATE to. MOKKUW (Tuesday), at me clndiDK fli st-class Stkasi Saw And Fi-ornr?,', Mills, handsome "and plain City Dwenin 1 ™ 0 \nluable Business Stands, Ac , b/ord« "f <5? P h “ s ’ T (:ourt Executors and others Alii'. btocks, Loans, Ac. See Thomru > c n . t ! • lt 150 ' tis-menrs and pamphlet catalogues* S dvor " T Y i —Accuracy of outline de »^ew Xof firisn. am! rare fidelity’to nature am < i e ß r AC ? T n ,ten prodnct i 0n 0f B - F - EEIMER'S llory?yM LiSentsses. 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WHABF AT GREEN STREET THE LEHIGH COAL And offer for sale on accomodating terms THEIR WHABF prop■R'i? mv ON THE W S|aoifr P S Elf JoarsT»n -nmyheeeenatthePßoPEßTy _ hc COMPANY’S OFFICE Jl - 3 i ■- - No- 123 South SEUONn street. P. A. HARDING & 00. Importers and Jobbers of STRAW * AND MILLINERY GOODS, NO. 413 ARCH ST. PHHADELP BIA mhs-2m{ PAPER HANGINGS. JAMES C. Puru, LATE OF HOWELL ft BROTHERS. "Wall Paper Decorations. SHOW ROOMS, bmohestnut street. GLOVES. QARD TO THE DADIES. . TV e beg to inform Lhe ladies we ha. ve Inst received a large assortment of ConrTOiaier’SiAlexandre’s, and Jou vin’s French Kid Gloves; also, ladies 7 French Beaver with single and double button. An assortment ofjadies* Bu *k ?kin Gauntlets and Traveling Gloves on hand, of our own make. HEATjY aoo., Fourth and Chestnut Sts. mht.cc* : ———i "We biTe learned not to be astonished at any. thing. Years of experience and & correspondence extending throughout all nationalities of the ha. bitable globe hare turned theories into facts and established a basis from which we need not err. ■We are not surprised at such facts as the follow mg—although the persons who write them are. We know the persona and circumstances, hence feel at liberty to endorse their statements : **N ew Bedfokd, Mass., Not. 24, 1863. Dear Sin—l have been afflicted manyyears with severe prostrating cramps in my limbs, cold feet and hands, and a general disordered system. Phy sicians and medicines filled to relieve me. While visiting some Irieuds In New York who were using Plantation Bitters they prevailed upon me to trv them. I commenced with a small wine glassful aiter dinner, feeing better by degrees, in a few days 1 was astonished to And the coldness and cramps bad entirely left me, and I could sleen the night through, which I have not done for years 1 feel like another being. 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